Graduation Congratulations to me: I am a college graduate, with a BA in English: Special Emphasis in American Cultural Literacy. There was a valid academic justification for the creation of a new emphasis, involving the unparalleled fluctuation of paradigms in American symbology and mythos, blah blah blah. It eventually became a euphemism for "hey, I can write that class into my major!"The list of classes I took for my degree:C/LT 342 - Bible as LiteratureComm 130 - Essentials of Public SpeakingEngl 184 - Composition and LiteratureEngl 283 - Science FictionEngl 384 - Principles of Literary StudyEngl 363 - Shakespeare 1 - HonorsEngl 370B - Survey of American Literature, post 1865Engl 372I - Wit and Humor in AmericaEngl 498 - Topics in English: Arthurian LiteratureMus 290 - Popular Music in AmericaR/St 302I - Religious and Social Ethical Dimensions of American DiversityUHP 150 - Exploring a Text: Mary Shelley's FrankensteinUHP 496 - Research Participation - HonorsUHP 498 - Senior Thesis/Project - Honors

That's right, I took "Popular Music" as a class for my English degree.